Word: pravo
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...Israel, tens of thousands of people, with their radios tuned to Prague, listened in horror. The Israeli government was sure that Jews were made the new scapegoats of Czechoslovakia's economic failings and wretched living conditions; it is noted too that the Communist Rude Pravo ominously referred to Israel as "a base of aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren...
...from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews, a "cosmopolite." The Communist organ Rude Pravo explained further: "Traitors of the type of Slansky . . . are indifferent to the past and present of the people among whom they live because they have nothing in common with them...
...trade, and 80% of shops have been communalized. Although this economic concentration in the hands of the government is capable of generating great power, Communists are finding that compared with the selective precision of private enterprise, nationalized enterprise on such a scale is often a blunt instrument. Thus Rude Pravo, central Communist Party organ, complained recently that so many sieves were being delivered to ironmongers that every family in the country would have had to buy one weekly for a year to get rid of them...
...Communist organ Rude Pravo last week indignantly attacked the "reactionary" miracle of Cihost. The Catholic hierarchy and the rich peasants, the paper charged, were spreading false stories to divert the small peasants' attention from the blessings of cooperative farming...
Waiters in Czechoslovakia's nationalized hotels and restaurants got new orders from the boss last week. Said the Communist organ Rude Pravo: "All employees are to ask their patrons to cease giving them tips because this is a dishonorable means of rewarding service." Tipping, the paper explained, was a "degrading reminder of the obsolete capitalist...